The Other Side
A Little Big Garden Dedicated to the Cultivation of Arts and Ideas In Utica
Our major events include the Monthly Art Gallery featuring world-class artists, our Jazz series which brings in some of the best jazz musicians in the country, our Hamilton College Lecture series, our activism-centered series dedicated to Sunithi Bajekal called The Big Conversation, the Mohawk Valley Freedom School dedicated to education and social justice, the Anti-Fascist Book club, as well as the Utica Herbal Study group, Kundalini Yoga, Spanish conversation classes, the Utica Poets Society and much more.
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List of Events
According To Nature: Paintings by Edward Christiana, Public Opening #3
Ongoing exhibition/sale of works by the late painter, dubbed "Painter Laureate of the Mohawk Valley by Easton Pribble, his longtime colleague at MWPAI School of Art. Paintings are priced to sell; new selections at each of 4 public openings in October. This is a rare chance to buy high-quality, distinguished art at "bargain" prices. Refreshments provided.
Alternative Electronic Music #14: Featuring Anne Rhodes
Anne Rhodes: Red Rainbow is Rhodes's solo voice and electronics project, in which she uses variety of vocal styles, extended techniques, and bel canto vocalises to create loops and soundscapes that are at once noisy and lyrical, dissonant and harmonious. https://annerhodes.bandcamp.com/releases Based in New Haven, CT, Anne Rhodes (b. 1976) performs a broad range of experimental, improvised, and classical music. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Boston University, an M.A. in Experimental Music Performance from Wesleyan…
According To Nature: Paintings by Edward Christiana Public Opening #4
The final "opening" in the exhibition/sale of works by the late painter, dubbed "Painter Laureate of the Mohawk Valley by Easton Pribble, his longtime colleague at MWPAI School of Art. Paintings are priced to sell; new selections will be offered. This is a rare chance to buy high-quality, distinguished art at "bargain" prices. Refreshments provided.
Isle de Formaggio
Mike Haritos will be on hand selling his fine imported cheeses. Not to be missed.
Alternative Electronic Music #15: featuring Sooner
Sooner perform compositions and improvisations that move between intricate duo playing and ambient soundscapes. Both members contribute original material they collectively translate in to a group sound that is larger than the sum of its parts. Bristling textures exist alongside stretched out vocal loops, and unison saxophone and guitar melodies appear as if from nowhere. Charlotte Greve - alto sax / voice / electronics Simon Jermyn - guitar / electronics https://soundcloud.com/simon-jermyn-1/01-sketch Charlotte Greve is an alto saxophonist / composer and…